On the agenda:

• The future of the legal professions in light of development of new technologies
• Cybersecurity within a law firm – the principal tendencies in 2023
• Developments with regard to New Technologies Law in Poland and in the EU in 2023

Its participants will learn:

• Which regulations and soft law regulate cybersecurity issues
• To whom the National Cybersecurity System Act applies and what obligations it imposes
• Whether cloud providers need to report incidents
• How to regulate cybersecurity issues in an IT contract (e.g. implementation, maintenance)
• Who is responsible for a cybersecurity breach, and how

We encourage you to participate in the training session entitled “IT implementation – How to prepare a good contract and get ready for implementation” on 7 February 2023.

During practical sessions, we will present standard solutions used in implementation contracts, with particular focus on those contractual elements that require special attention when preparing or negotiating a contract.

We are looking forward to seeing you on October 26 The Legal 500  GC Summit: Poland. Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak will give a lecture entitled “With the rise of technology, is it now harder to protect your brand?”. During the meeting our Law Firm will also be represented by Xawery Konarski and Beata Matusiewicz-Kulig.

TKP are delighted to attend the 2022 IR Global annual conference on October 22-25, 2022 in Barcelona. During the meeting our Law Firm will be represented by Xawery Konarski, Agnieszka Wachowska, prof. UEK Jan Byrski, PhD hab.

We are looking forward to seeing you on October 19-21 at ITechLaw 2022 European Conference in Zurich. Xawery Konarski will be the moderator of roundtable discussions about Web 3.0. Agnieszka Wachowska is going to take part in the Cybersecurity Insurance Session with the presentation: “Challenges to overcome and legal risks to address when outsourcing cyber security services”. This panel will discuss hot topics around cyber security insurance coverage and outsourcing cyber security services to third parties.

On the agenda:

• The principle of disclosure under the Public Procurement Law.
• Business secrets under the Public Procurement Law and Act on Combating Unfair Competition.
• Specification by a Contracting Authority of requirements concerning observing confidentiality in tender contract documentation or an invitation to tender.
• Rules on how to effectively identify hard and soft copies of documents and information as confidential.
• According to case law and facts in specific cases, what kind of information is covered by confidentiality? Examples from practice
• How to effectively demonstrate and prove that information must be considered confidential, examples from practice.
• Disclosure of public tender agreements, including a new public central register of agreements from July 2022.

The program includes:

• The type of intellectual property rights that might be infringed in a computer game
  • Areas of infringement of copyright, trademarks, right to image, and other rights in video games, in particular the problem of naming games.
  • Which elements of pre-existing works and the real world can be used without danger of being held liable?
• Imitation of computer games and classification of such imitation – case study.
  • Can elements of a computer game be patented?
  • What safety measures can be employed against risk?
  • Good practices regarding protecting rights to works of a company’s own employees and contractors, and management board members as well.
  • Good practices during game development.
  • Clearing of intellectual property rights.

On the agenda:

• New recommendations made by the Public Procurement Office for procurement of computer hardware
• New recommendations made by the Public Procurement Office on public tenders for IT systems – challenges and the progress made today
• Preliminary market consultations for contracts for IT supplies and services
• Qualitative criteria for assessment of bids for the IT market
• A high rate of inflation and the Ukraine war as cause for amending an agreement for a public tender for IT supplies and services
• Stipulating and enforcing contractual penalties under IT agreements

On the agenda:

• When does conduct of a party in breach of intellectual property rights affect the value of pecuniary claims?
• A lawsuit for determination in intellectual property cases
• Processing of non-personal data: whom do non-personal data belong to and what actions can be performed on non-personal data?”
• Today’s challenges regarding protection of renowned brands – proving renown – Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak
• NFT – what is that exactly? How use of Non-Fungible Tokens can be regulated in practice
• European patent with unitary effect – a Polish operator’s perspective

For many years, the IAB Forum has been Poland’s most inspirational conference on marketing, and has always proven effective in setting out best practices. A huge amount of information and knowledge on digital marketing in Poland awaits the attendees.

On 8 June 2022,  Agnieszka Karcz will give a lecture entitled “Transparency is a must for a marketing influencer – the legal practitioner’s perspective”.

This year, the IAB Forum 2022 will be held as a hybrid event – taking place face-to-face in Warsaw and accessible online from anywhere in the world.

The Forum is being organized by the Association of Employers of the Internet Industry Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Polska.

We are looking forward to seeing you on May 16-17 at Digital Dragons 2022. Zbigniew Pinkalski, PhD will talk about Trade secrets–overlooked instrument protecting gamedev ideas.